Broader Look: Recent Episodes
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The BusinessMirror provides readers with a broader look at the nation’s business in these challenging times. It covers not just economies or industries or companies or markets, but all the people and elements whose dynamics influence developments, movements and trends.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Today’s Table Tale focuses on coffee farming in Malaybalay, Bukidnon, based on the story written by BusinessMirror’s John Eiron R. Francisco.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
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Today we podcast Week 40 of the stock market outlook for October 2, 2023, to October 6, 2023.
Welcome to Breaktime Musings with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles topics on the fringes of business and the economy.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Today we podcast the conversation between BusinessMirror’s Malou Talosig and Gina Ocampo after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Morocco on September 14, 2023.
According to Gina Ocampo, the earthquake has left cracks on the walls of their bathroom and all over their house at Rabat, Morocco’s capital.
Ocampo has been living in Morocco for 11 years and married a Frenchman who has made Morocco his home for the past 16 years. She would tell Malou Talosig of the impact of the earthquake on the lives of Filipinos in Morocco.
Let’s listen in on the conversation.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Today’s Table Tale focuses on government’s initiatives for the livestock industry based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters Raadee Sausa, Butch Fernandez and Jovee Marie de la Cruz.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
Today we podcast Week 31 of the stock market outlook for July 31, 2023, to August 1, 2023.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Breaktime Musings, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that features topics at the fringes of business.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Today we podcast the first part of a 4-part episode on Chinese Filipinos based on the story by Jade Lim-Lopez. Lim-Lopez is a writer, documentary producer and media consultant for environmental NGOs and legal assistance groups. Lim-Lopez’s story titled “Chinese Filipinos: Transecting 1521” was published in the Philippine Graphic on March 21, 2021.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Today’s episode focuses on the Marcos government’s plan to impose additional taxes on food products, specifically sugar. This episode is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters Raadee Sausa, Butch Fernandez, Jovee Marie de la Cruz and Jasper Arcalas.
Welcome to the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast.
Today we podcast the conversation on renewable energy between Mr. Jesper Svenningsen, executive director of the Nordic Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, and Ms. Malou Talosig-Bartolome, columnist of the BusinessMirror.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast segment is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast is based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters VG Cabuag and Cai Ordinario.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Today’s episode focuses on fertilizers and its discussion among government officials based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporters Jovee Marie de la Cruz, Samuel Medenilla and Raadee Sausa.
Welcome to a special episode of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast where we focus on the celebration of World Food Safety Day on June 7, 2023.
This year’s celebration of World Food Safety Day carries the theme “Food standards save lives.”
Today’s episode features a conversation between BusinessMirror Reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas and Ziggy Felongco, the Food Safety Risk Assessment Specialist of Winrock International, in celebration of the World Food Safety Day.
The Broader Look podcast is produced by T. Anthony C. Cabangon, publisher of the BusinessMirror.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast is based on the Stock Market Outlook story written by BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag and comes out every Monday.
Today we podcast Week 23 of the stock market outlook for June 5, 2023, to June 9, 2023.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
Today’s episode focuses on the prices of onions and what the government is doing to address the issue based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporter Raadee Sausa.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast is based on the Stock Market Outlook story written by BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag and comes out every Monday.
Today we podcast the conversation between BusinessMirror’s Edwin Sallan and Podcaster Marcelo Santos III.
More popularly known as “Hugot Marcelo” on Spotify, Marcelo Santos tells Edwin Sallan he has been writing books, starring in films and a content creator before focusing on podcasts.
Edwin and Marcelo will also talk about the term “hugot,” a Filipino word that literally means “pulled out.” In the Philippine socio-cultural milieu, especially among Millennials, “hugot” can be translated loosely as poignant love. It could also be associated with wistfulness on a romantic sphere.
Let’s listen to the conversation about “Hugot” and “Hugot Marcelo.”
What are the regulatory mechanisms on food safety? How do you know that a food product is safe?
In this episode of Food Safety Fridays, we talked to an expert from the National Meat Inspection Service to discuss the agency's food safety mandate and what are the rights of consumers when it comes to food safety.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
Today’s episode features the backyard gardening program of the local government unit of Angono, Rizal based on the unpublished story of BusinessMirror Interns Aceelaine Duron and Stephanie Nichole Ho from the University of Rizal System-Angono.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
Today, we’ll be talking about Bona Vita, a start-up company that specializes in a coffee product, and their partner in success, Ninja Van.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast is based on the Stock Market Outlook story written by BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag and comes out every Monday.
Welcome to Breaktime Musings, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look Podcast that tackles topics on the fringes of business and the economy.
Today’s podcast is a special episode for Good Friday and based on an interview with Melinda Ramo-Baylon, a woman who relied on her faith as she struggled with mental health issues. Baylon was interviewed by BusinessMirror Intern Stephanie Ho of the University of Rizal System Angono.
Today, we’ll be talking about the waste-to-fertilizer project in the southern Philippines by the Davao Thermo Biotech Corp. founded in 2017 by the late Dr. Roberto Puentespina Jr. BusinessMirror Reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas talked to Olive Puentespina, CEO of the Davao Thermo Biotech Corp. for this episode.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast is based on the Stock Market Outlook story written by BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag and comes out every Monday.
What are the regulatory mechanisms on food safety? How do you know that a food product is safe?
In this episode of Food Safety Fridays, we talked to an expert from the Food and Drug Administration to discuss the agency's food safety mandate and what are the rights of consumers when it comes to food safety.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
Today’s episode tackles the issue of sugar based on the stories written by BusinessMirror Reporters Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas, Andrea San Juan and Raadee Sausa.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s BM Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
Today’s episode puts a spotlight on rice, based on the stories written by BusinessMirror reporters Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas and Raadee Sausa.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s BM Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
Today’s episode puts a spotlight on the sagging trend of the Philippine banana industry. This is based on the stories written by BusinessMirror reporters Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas and Jovee Marie De La Cruz and the BusinessMirror Mindanao Bureau Chief Manuel Cayon.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast is based on the Stock Market Outlook story written by BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag and comes out every Monday.
Welcome to a special episode of Breaktime Musings, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s BM Broader Look podcast, that talks about topics on the fringes of business and the economy.
On the International Day of Women, today’s podcast focuses on the women who participated in the livelihood training organized by the Gender and Development Office of the Municipality of Binangonan, Province of Rizal.
This episode is from the unpublished story of BusinessMirror Intern Aceelaine Duron of the University of Rizal System of Angono, Rizal.
Food safety is a shared responsibility. As consumers, we also have to do our share in ensuring that food sold and consumed is safe for everyone.
To know more, listen to the second episode of Food Safety Fridays which tackles the responsibilities of all stakeholders in ensuring food is safe for consumption.
Catch new episodes of the Food Safety Fridays series every last Friday of the month!
Music by OYStudio from Pixabay
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s BM Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
Today’s episode focuses on the minimum access volume mechanism for sugar importation as covered by BusinessMirror Reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas.
Welcome to the BusinessMirror BM Broader Look Podcast.
Today, we’ll be talking about Allianz PNB Life Insurance Inc., the fastest growing life insurance company based on premium income for 2 years, with our special guest, Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Sustainability, Mr. Gino Riola.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast is based on the Stock Market Outlook story written by BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag and comes out every Monday.
Today we podcast Week 7 of the stock market outlook for February 13, 2023, to February 15, 2023.
Welcome to another episode of Breaktime Musings, a segment of the BusinessMirror BM Broader Look podcast that tackles topics on the fringes of business and the economy.
Today’s podcast is the first of four episodes based on a story by writer and film critic Tito Genova Valiente that was published in the Philippine Graphic magazine on June 2, 2021.
Titled “The Mighty Words: Writers of Protest and Revolution,” Valiente’s story provides a good insight on Philippine literature and the Filipino labor movement.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast is based on the Stock Market Outlook story written by BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag and comes out every Monday.
Welcome to Breaktime Musings, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s BM Broader Look podcast that features topics at the fringes of business.
Today we podcast the essay partly based on the remarks delivered by Butch Fernandez, BusinessMirror’s senior political reporter, at the February 3, 2022, “Blas Ople Forum on Philippine Overseas Employment: Past, Present and Future,” marking 95th birth anniversary of the late Labor Secretary and Senator Blas Ople.
Fernandez, a journalist, remembers how the former labor and foreign affairs secretary and Senate President remained a lifelong newspaperman at heart.
Titled “Covering the essential Blas F. Ople,” this essay by Butch Fernandez, which I will read for this podcast, was published in the February 2022 edition of the Philippine Graphic magazine.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast is based on the Stock Market Outlook story written by BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag and comes out every Monday.
Today we podcast Week 5 of the stock market outlook for January 30, 2023, to February 3, 2023.
In this first episode of Food Safety Fridays, Dennis Estopace talked to Ziggy Felongco of Winrock International to discuss basic concepts and importance of food safety.
Did you know that tapioca pearls in your beloved milk tea or bubble tea are considered safety hazards in some countries? Find out more in this podcast!Catch new episodes of the Food Safety Fridays series every last Friday of the month!Music by OYStudio from Pixabay
Today’s episode tackles the issue of onions based on the stories written by BusinessMirror reporters Jovee dela Cruz and Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM podcast is based on the Stock Market Outlook story written by BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag and comes out every Monday.
Today’s episode focuses on onion supply and prices based on the stories by BusinessMirror Reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas.
Welcome to Breaktime Musings with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles topics on the fringes of business and economy.
Today we podcast the conversation between singer-songwriters Acel Bisa, Lougee Basabas and Hannah Romawac and Soundstrip Editor Edwin Sallan at the Empty Stomach Cafe and Lounge bar at the Bonifacio Global City.
The trio would join fellow Pinoy rock icons Aia de Leon, Barbie Almalbis and Kitchie Nadal on November 26, Saturday, at The Theatre at Solaire for a one-night concert titled “Tanaw.”
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s BM Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food. Today's episode shows how the Philippines tackles avian influenza or bird flu.
Welcome to Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market. Today we podcast Week 43 of the stock market outlook for October 24, 2022, to October 28, 2022.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s BM Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food. Today’s episode focuses on issues raised by the United States on the Philippines’s policies on agricultural imports.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s BM Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food. Today’s episode would feature the story on rice imports by BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas.
The Business Mondays is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
Today’s episode would feature the story on the banana export based on the story by BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas.
The Business Mondays is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
Sufficiency and not security. This is the goal of the Sugar Regulatory Administration amid the continuing increase in the supply of the commodity and the decrease in production.
Today’s episode would look at the issue of sugar based on the stories by BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas.
The Business Mondays is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
Today’s episode is about the leadership of the Department of Agriculture, based on the stories by BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas, who is also the technical editor and sound editor of the Broader Look podcast.
The Business Mondays is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
Today’s episode is about the tariff on pork based on the stories by BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas, who is also the technical and sound editor of the Broader Look podcast.
The Business Mondays with BM is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
Today’s episode is about coconuts, based on the stories by BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas, who is also the technical and sound editor of the Broader Look podcast.
The Business Mondays with BM is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
The Business Mondays with BM is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
Today’s podcast is based on the story by poet and essayist Marra Lanot published in the Philippine Graphic magazine in 2021 to commemorate the death anniversary of National Artist Nick Joaquin. Nick Joaquin was the first Editor-in-Chief in the revived Philippines Graphic under the late Ambassador, media mogul, and philanthropist Antonio L. Cabangon Chua.
Titled “Nick Joaquin: The twilight years” is a warm and enlightening essay on the life and the last years of the quintessential Filipino writer who died in 2004.
We are grateful to BusinessMirror Reporter Cai Ordinario for reading Ms. Lanot’s essay.
Music by madirfan from Pixabay.
The volume of rice imported by the Philippines in the first quarter has increased by 70 percent to nearly a million metric ton.
Music by madirfan from Pixabay
Hours after Russian troops marched toward Ukraine, nearly two dozen Filipino seafarers had to abandon ship and walked to safety for four hours in winter. This is their ferry tales.
Music by madirfan from Pixabay
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
Today’s episode would look at the issue of abaca based on the stories by BusinessMirror reporters Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas and Bianca Cuaresma.
Music by madirfan from Pixabay.
Welcome to the 401st episode of the Broader Look podcast! Start your week with Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
A bittersweet struggle is on the offing: to import or not to import sugar. Stakeholders weigh in if the move would sweeten the economy or a bitter pill to swallow.
Today’s podcast features a story from the Philippines Graphic magazine, the sister publication of the BusinessMirror. Today’s episode is based on the story by Anne Ruth Dela Cruz on Guiling “Gene” Mamondiong, chief of the Local Water Utilities Administration.
Music by madirfan from Pixabay.
The Philippine government and the poultry industry grapple with a specter that returned to haunt a country facing food insecurity and inflation: the Avian Flu.
Music by madirfan from Pixabay.
The Business Mondays with BM is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
Today’s podcast is based on the story by poet and essayist Marra Lanot published in the Philippine Graphic magazine in 2021 to commemorate the death anniversary of National Artist Nick Joaquin. Nick Joaquin was the first Editor-in-Chief in the revived Philippines Graphic under the late Ambassador, media mogul, and philanthropist Antonio L. Cabangon Chua.
Titled “Nick Joaquin: The twilight years” is a warm and enlightening essay on the life and the last years of the quintessential Filipino writer who died in 2004.
We are grateful to BusinessMirror Reporter Cai Ordinario for reading Ms. Lanot’s essay.
Music by madirfan from Pixabay.
The country’s corn import volume is expected to rise with government’s policy stance. Sectors weigh in on the kernel of that move.
Music by madirfan from Pixabay.
The Business Mondays with BM is a segment of the BusinessMirror’s Broader Look podcast that tackles the performance of the Philippine stock market.
In 2014, Tom Morello, Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder honored the late AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott with their rendition of “Highway to Hell.” In this podcast, Morello talked to BusinessMirror how that led to his 2021 album “The Atlas Underground Fire."
Music by madirfan from Pixabay
Welcome to Table Tales Tuesdays, a segment of the Broader Look podcast that talks about agriculture and food.
Every nation struggles with the problem of illegal drug use. The related crime issues, such as robberies and burglaries for money to buy drugs is important. But civil societies all try to come up with a solution to keep people from killing themselves from illegal drugs.
The intensity of the 2022 presidential campaign is amazing, breathtaking even, considering the voting is six months away. However, I have the highest regard for the sentiments of anyone willing to drive their car/truck/tricycle in support of their candidate when gasoline is P62 per liter. That is dedication.
Our teachers tell us that Filipino politics is rooted in what people say at the dinner table. However, most families now forbid talks of politics because of the presumption that it will be uncomfortable. However, political discussions are necessary, especially today. And contrary to popular belief, they don’t always have to be heated.
“Why do you think it’s important for society to allow trans women to enter the Miss South Africa competition?” This was a question in the 2021 Miss South Africa pageant, and Zimi Mabunzi’s viral answer blew me away.
My grandfather was born in 1886. At that time 72 percent of humanity lived in “extreme poverty.” In “Relative Poverty” —85 percent—were those who “from the social perspective have a much lower living standard compared to the economic standards of the surrounding population. This is a measure of income inequality.”
Today we podcast a conversation with Mr. Amar Babu, who heads the business of Lenovo Group Limited in the overall Asia Pacific region, including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Asean, Australia, New Zealand, and India / South Asia.
Mr. Amar Babu spoke to BusinessMirror Special Projects Editor Anne Ruth de la Cruz about his journey with Lenovo and the technology firm’s business before and during the pandemic as well as its plans for the future.
IT has been easy not to talk about the Philippine stock market for months. In 2021, the range is basically between 7,200 and 6,400 (on a monthly basis) for about a 10 to 12 percent range. There has been some volatility.
The world stopped on a morning in New York City 20 years ago. It does not matter if you were an old man or even not yet born. The world has not been the same since then and every life has been affected in the ensuing time.
One day, you hear about a trending issue, maybe an interview of a dictator’s son, so you pull up Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok, or another social media platform to learn what happened. Maybe the issue is political, religious, scientific, whatever. What matters is that your timeline says there are only two general opposing sides : the pro and the anti.
The concept is so much a fundamental part of nature that it is found in almost all scientific disciplines. Yet there is only one place that it is a common term.
The definition of “grind” is “to wear down, smooth, or sharpen by abrasion or friction; to reduce to fine particles, as by pounding, crushing or pulverizing.” But it is also used to describe a “dreary, monotonous, or difficult labor, study, or routine.”
I was born in 1998, so I have no firsthand experience of the Marcos regime. Everything I know about that time is based on stories from people who lived through that period and are still alive, or from those who retell their stories. The strange thing about the situation is there appears to be two drastically different sides to the “debate,” despite the truth that there are indisputable facts that render one side the clear winner.
Nonetheless, this made me wonder: will the same thing happen with this pandemic?
Today’s podcast features singer and song writer Lea Halili who recently launched her first solo single titled “Fourth of July.”
The BusinessMirror Soundstrip editor Edwin Sallan talked to Leah about her album, her love for music, her band the Ransom Collective and about living amid the pandemic.
Although different in magnitude by a factor of a million, what happened in Afghanistan has similarities to what happened prior to World War II.
On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from meeting with Adolf Hitler. Chamberlain, from outside 10 Downing Street, said: “My good friends, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.”
Back in our time, specifically for those born before the 2000s, we had to get “real” jobs because these were supposedly more impressive—even if we didn’t want to, we had to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, nurses, and all the other occupations that required pretty diplomas, years of study, and board exams.
IT is probably a good thing that we have the triumphs of Philippine Olympic athletes to occupy our attention because Covid and the lockdown are taking a serious toll on us, not only economically but also psychologically.
REP. Joey Sarte Salceda of Albay took off his sports jacket and ran a hand on his blue tie during an online discussion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZIczR2aWjk) on a law that he touts as “the most readily available tool for economic recovery.”
Salceda appeared exasperated, especially with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), in that online forum days after President Duterte signed Republic Act (RA) 11534 on March 26.
Four months later, the House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman remains bullish that the law, also called Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises, or CREATE, that he helped craft is one of the country’s tools to climb out of the economic rut.
In a real sense we are all like Tiny Tim in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, looking through the window of the rich man’s house at the servants with the family gathered around the dinner table, and then going home to more humble “middle class” surroundings.
MY Generation Z sisters are on video calls all day. They have infinite Messenger groups and Discord servers, and they can handle digital socialization 24/7 (for those unfamiliar, Discord is essentially a messaging app on steroids but in a good way). Meanwhile, the sound of Viber and Messenger notifications make my heart drop, and I think my fellow non-Generation Zs can relate.
HERE comes the sun, thanks to Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz.
As Diaz lifted a combined 224 kilograms it felt a weight, albeit temporarily, was lifted from the shoulders of a country hunched with the heavy load of debt.
Indeed, as the rains at Monday’s dusk drowned the droning-on of President Duterte during his last State-of-the-Nation Address (Sona), the republic faced the danger of debilitating debt.
Finance officials have said that the Philippines could see the ratio of debt to gross domestic product (GDP) to tip the scale at around 58.7 percent.
A couple of days ago, a comment was posted on Twitter. “If you are stocking up on booze before ECQ begins, you have a problem. Alcohol Drinking problem.”
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Today's Business Minds podcast segment puts a spotlight on payment gateway operator Xendit. Anne Ruth dela Cruz, BusinessMirror Special Projects coordinator, engaged Yang Yang Zhang, managing director of Xendit Philippines Incorporated, in a conversation on Xendit and the Philippine market.
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IF you want to understand how the stock market works, think back to the good old days when we travelled by airplane.
HOTDOGS are having an identity crisis. It’s all because of a three-word phrase: “Born-and-bred.”
No, it’s not the title track in John Mayer’s fifth studio album. But it is something that Philippine state officials and industry players have not come to terms with. Yet.
“Kung makukulong ako, ikaw na ang bahala sa’kin, ha?”
Every law student or lawyer has heard this line or a similar one, and if we got paid each time we heard this, maybe we wouldn’t have to practice law anymore! Still, it’s always funny to hear.
The timid that prefers to avoid risk, the snowflakes who melt at the first sign of risk, and the cowards who run from risk will be buried in the months to come.
Welcome to Breaktime Musings with BM, a segment of the BusinessMirror BM Broader Look podcast, which features stories from the fringes of business and economy.
Today’s podcast shares in the celebration of the 25th year of the Itchyworms, a rock band formed in 1996 and composed of Jazz Nicolas, Jugs Jugueta, Kelvin Yu and Chino Singson.
THE merchandise exports of the Philippines to the United States have been chugging along on well-oiled gears in recent years. That is, until a virus from Wuhan, China, formed like a monkey wrench and dented the momentum between the countries.
Helplessness has been so easy recently. It’s been hard to feel in control over our own lives, especially when there’s always someone or something to blame—the pandemic, government, bosses, and other external causes out of our control. Even goal-setting has become strange because of the uncertainty of when this pandemic will even end. Still, it helps to remember that despite all this, there is still one thing we can control: ourselves.
The seller has the obligation to sell at the highest price possible. The buyer has the obligation to buy at the lowest price possible. However, the buyer determines the price of the final transaction because no one can force the buyer to buy. The seller determines whether or not the transaction will take place because no one can force the seller to sell.
The 2022 elections are coming up, and rumors about potential presidential candidates are going around, especially these days considering the recent political climate.
Inflation, like other situations—including the stock market and a sinking ship at sea—requires understanding of what is going on. At the beginning, you want to be doing what everybody else is doing. As stock prices are going up, watch the crowd and buy when they do but keep an eye out for trouble just like on a cruise ship. Drink, dance, and party the night away, making an occasional trip to check for icebergs.
NUMBERS never lie. But when couched in malicious code, numbers could lie and compromise systems.
Hence, from a sphere involving solely the private sector, cybersecurity has become a major agenda in talks among representatives of advanced economies, like US President Joseph Biden Jr. and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in this week’s summit between the previously opposite poles of a slumbering Cold War.
The significant year for Marikina was in 1887 when shoemaking started to flourish. Back in the good old days, the Sapatero Shoe Company made shoes, sold the shoes, and paid the government taxes on the profit. A hundred years later, the company started selling shoes to stores in Hong Kong. The company paid taxes to the Philippine government on the profits.
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ONE and zero.
These two binary digits have been, and still are, the building blocks of a new way of doing business after the nation’s leaders ordered the lockdown of territorial borders and forced people to close doors to neighbors and friends. The economy went into entropy.
June is Pride month, and as emphasized in my previous article, there are many important things to protest; Pride is a protest before anything, after all. Still, Pride is also a celebration. We celebrate not only our existence, but also our progress—a reminder that our protests work, even one step at a time.
TWO years ago, then central bank Governor Nestor A. Espenilla Jr. set out to put the country shoulder to shoulder with 14 nations in the world. It was a noble ambition.
The impetus came along with the release of the World Bank’s comprehensive database on global financial inclusion. The 2017 Global Findex database, a data set that is published every three years, showed that the Philippines has one of the weakest financial inclusion coverages in the region, as reflected by the low account-penetration in its adult population.
United States foreign policy has been a bit schizophrenic since its founding. In his Farewell Address—published in 1796—George Washington warned against “foreign entanglements.” Washington argued to avoid long-term friendly relations or rivalries with any nation, and that alliances were likely to draw the US into wars that have no justification.
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Today’s podcast celebrates World Bicycle Day by putting a spotlight on two riders of folding bikes: Coi Castillo and Herbert Nacion.
THEY saw Maria Clara.
And a marketing agency said she’s no longer the woman Jose Rizal embodied in his opus “Noli Me Tangere.”
Owing to those whose bood drenched the road to freedom, today’s women now have a choice: go to school or not; vote or boycott; bear children or not; and, run for office or against officials.
“Maria Clara used to simply accept her fate. Today, the Filipina’s actions are driven by her own motivations. She takes charge of her life and she feels proud to be herself, a study by the local operations of Wunderman Thompson LLC said in a recent study published on “The Modern Filipina.”
IF you studied history, humanity has always been on the brink of “doomsday.” Maybe there is something in the human psyche, like the fear of being eaten by a saber-tooth tiger, which keeps us on edge.
Maybe reinforcing potential doom is a survival mechanism that keeps us on guard. Other mammals have developed acute senses like hearing or sight that automatically kick in to recognize and react against danger.
A naked woman was found dead, her head in a toilet, in 2014. A man was found dead, a wooden stick in his genitals, in 2021. In between these two deaths, there have been dozens of similar deaths and hundreds of similar assaults in the Philippines alone. Prior to 2014, who knows how many more?
SUPPLY constraints were already a given before the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal: lockdowns are to blame and exporters are seen to put up with the setback for a long term. And merchants relying on revenues from sending goods out of the country’s borders—nay, the whole economy itself have no other choice but to adjust operations and hold on tight during this bumpy ride.
You cannot blame Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for getting some things wrong when they developed the concepts of “Marxism.” Part of the problem is that both men considered themselves to be philosophers, economists, historians, journalists, and political theorists.
When was the last time you used the Pythagorean theorem?
I’ve used the Pythagorean theorem outside the classroom only once my entire life. Pre-pandemic, I was in a mall looking for a laptop case. I left my laptop at home, so I asked my sister to take its dimensions, and she gave me the height and width.
SOME fought a virus characterized by a corona with Dalgona; and, the creamy-coffee craze began.
The battle against boredom ensued after lockdown measures were imposed in March last year to stem the spread of Covid-19. Some Filipinos sought ways to distract themselves from isolation with a concoction of instant coffee, sugar and hot water. Voila! A mental malaise momentarily muted and a generation of gourmets grew.
The Covid-19 pandemic has dominated the news in 2020 to the exclusion of many other important events. As a sidebar to that has been the relationships between countries not only over “sovereignty rights” but also who gets which vaccine.
When was the last time you used the Pythagorean theorem?
I’ve used the Pythagorean theorem outside the classroom only once my entire life. Pre-pandemic, I was in a mall looking for a laptop case. I left my laptop at home, so I asked my sister to take its dimensions, and she gave me the height and width.
IT will take about a foot for a spoonful of food to reach the mouth; to reach the dining table, it’s farther than that. Nearly 10,000 nautical miles: 9,629, to be exact. That is the distance between the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest seaport, and the Manila International Container Terminal, the Philippines’ busiest port.
That is also the exact length it takes for a container of pork products from the world’s top exporter of pork to arrive in the world’s ninth-biggest consumer of pork meat.
Vice versa, it’s also the same mileage that shipments of virgin coconut oil from the Philippines, one of two of the world’s largest exporters, cover upon reaching Europe.
Prior to the pandemic year, it took about a month to a month and a half on average to complete one delivery; either of pork from Europe to the Philippines, or coconut oil from the Philippines to Europe. Today, it takes an eternity…of sorts.
Regardless of what you are being told, the Philippine Stock Exchange is not going to react meaningfully or sustainably to inflation, unemployment, or government pronouncements. Those are all excellent during normal times; not now.
MY friend’s grandfather recently had a stroke. His family spent several hours in an ambulance searching for a hospital that had space to admit him.
After hours, they found one, but it didn’t have the needed medical equipment. Only one expensive hospital had the necessary equipment and available space, which happened to be a private room.
THE answer to government’s problems on returning overseas Filipinos amid the economic and health crises may lie in a Chinese proverb: “To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
And those coming back were considered modern-day heroes; and they number to over half a million—519,566 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), to be exact, as Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III told President Duterte last April 19.
THE answer to government’s problems on returning overseas Filipinos amid the economic and health crises may lie in a Chinese proverb: “To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
And those coming back were considered modern-day heroes; and they number to over half a million—519,566 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), to be exact, as Labor Secretary Silvestre H. Bello III told President Duterte last April 19.
Inflation is like the zombie apocalypse. No one really knows where it came from. But government is obviously at fault since they did not prevent it and are helpless to stop it. The public does not have many options.
Time will tell which is more effective between modules or synchronous online classes, but one thing is certain: much of the effectiveness of purely modular learning depends on the guidance received by the student.
Start your week with Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BM Broader Look podcast that puts a spotlight on the Philippine stock market.
SHE’S disappointed.
Lawyer Angela C. Ibay of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Philippines said so days before the country’s 13th Earth Day celebration on April 22.
The last 12 months has proven one thing conclusively. If hostile aliens ever invade Earth, it will be “Mars Attacks!” and not “Independence Day.” The fate of the world will depend on an elderly grandmother playing a 1920’s Broadway musical song rather than a globally coordinated strategy and effort.
It’s amazing how the country has had one new government-related controversy every week since the pandemic began. Each issue is so bad that it almost feels like new ones are created every week to cover up the previous week’s shameful events.
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NEARLY five years ago in Wulong, Chongqing, China, Maurizio Zavatta achieved a world record for the highest blindfolded tightrope walk at 698 feet and 1.9 inches. Many economies relying on fossil fuel—and companies supplying the power from them—have been doing that since 2015.
It was the year more than 70 countries committed to cut greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) to net zero by 2050. For more than a decade, it’s been a tightrope walk between supplying power and keeping fidelity to that goal.
These are the characteristics of the most dangerous persons on the planet. And by persons, I include governments, institutions, and private companies.
IN every national crisis, these words are always uttered with pride: Filipino resilience, and bayanihan. From the last Taal eruption, annual typhoon destructions, and even the current pandemic, these words have always been thrown around. They are practically staple words in times of Philippine crisis. Notice how these words always come from the privileged and in power, and never from the victims?
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So…does Ivermectin actually work against Covid-19? When there are doctors of medicine debating on whether or not a drug works against a virus, we non-medical experts suffer. Fake news was easier to handle, but conflicting expert opinions spread by attention-hungry reposters? Good luck to us.
’TWAS the night before the eighteenth of March, when all through streets in front of houses not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The laughter of children and the chatter of women faded into hushed tones. Three million hungry denizens of the metropolis silenced to sleep grumbling stomachs.
Welcome to the “bubble,” a dystopian-like world previously stowed in the pages of books of fiction by Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Orson Scott Card, Cormac McCarthy and George Orwell.
The condescending phrase kaka-computer mo ’yan, is not the life-changing apprehension of wisdom that we think it is. If anything, the line is only holding back our youth. We say that the real world is just as real as the online world, but this also means the online world is also just as real as the real world.
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Because the press and pundits have created them to push their own political agendas, the terms “globalism” and especially “nationalism” have taken on negative connotations. As a result, the governing philosophies behind those two ideas are not being properly examined. Neither is the impact on elections being considered.
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WHEN the Philippine government reported the first confirmed Covid-19 case in the country back on January 30, 2020, the country’s health-care system immediately started preparations to manage the expected increase in Covid-19 cases.
While they were able to put in place the necessary infection and patient safety protocols not only to protect their patients but their healthcare workers as well, two doctors had many learnings and realizations to share as they battled this invisible disease for over a year. Another doctor, who managed to be part of the government’s efforts, had to leave prematurely to find another platform to push for his beliefs.
My management style is to listen to every complaint about how things are being done. Even from whiners. However, if someone came up with a criticism that I had not thought of, my reaction was to put that person in charge of fixing the problem.
My belief is that if you are smart enough to find a problem, there is a good chance you can also find the solution. Further, it can create a de facto “task force” as the “Person in Charge” starts reaching out to others for ideas.
In this Breaktime Musings episode, we explore the world of Animal Crossings: new Horizons or ACNH and how it helped Filipinos cope with the pandemic as the game celebrates its first year this March. We talked to five ACNH players and streamers about their ACNH experience.
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SOME call it olfactory memory. It’s what Rodel Guco, standing near where water burbles on one of the shores of the seaport city of Valetta, Malta, says what his nose remembers after briefly taking off his face mask.
Guco (not his real name), also remembers the pungent smell of money, something his nose also missed when he arrived in Malta late-February, 2020, from the United Arab Emirates.
That scent, however, wafted to hundreds of millions of families of migrant workers as, to the surprise of many, central banks of major origin countries relying on foreign remittances reported receiving higher dollar inflows in pandemic-hit 2020.
American baseball legend Casey Stengel once said, “Never make predictions, especially about the future.” Stengel also said, “You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.” With those two thoughts, I try not to make predictions as I have never made any money predicting the future.
The moment you make a “prediction,” you assume that you will be accurate and your actions are geared to being right. It is hard to adjust to changing realities when you know you are not wrong about what is coming next.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on cycling. It is based on the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show streamed live every Monday via the BusinessMirror Facebook page. The show is moderated by BusinessMirror Sports Editor Jun Lomibao and National Commissaire for Road Sunshine Joy Vallejo.
We podcast today a highlight of the seventh episode of the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show. It is a conversation by Sunshine Joy Vallejo, referred to as Comm 3, and BusinessMirror Sports Editor Jun Lomibao, referred to as Comm2, with Gaye Paris, one of the popular video bloggers today with 6,300 subscribers on her eponymous YouTube channel.
Start your week with Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BM Broader Look podcast that puts a spotlight on the Philippine Stock Market.
SOME call it olfactory memory. It’s what Rodel Guco, standing near where water burbles on one of the shores of the seaport city of Valetta, Malta, says what his nose remembers after briefly taking off his face mask.
Guco (not his real name), also remembers the pungent smell of money, something his nose also missed when he arrived in Malta late-February, 2020, from the United Arab Emirates.
That scent, however, wafted to hundreds of millions of families of migrant workers as, to the surprise of many, central banks of major origin countries relying on foreign remittances reported receiving higher dollar inflows in pandemic-hit 2020.
WE need to turn our attention to something important—beer.
Humans and beer have been around for about 9,000 years. Beer—of course—was first brewed in China around 7000 B.C. But there is some dispute whether it was beer or bread that came first.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on professional cycling. It is based on the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show streamed live every Monday via the BusinessMirror website and Facebook page. The show is moderated by BusinessMirror Sports Editor Jun Lomibao and National Commissaire for Road Sunshine Joy Vallejo.
We podcast today the sixth episode of the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show, which had coaches Frederick Farr, Eusebio Eboy Quinones, Ednalyn “Ed” Hualda and Reinhard Gorrantes as guests.
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ALL it takes is one click.
Someone’s personal information, such as bank account and contact details, can be stolen with just one click on suspicious links and emails.
These are then used by fraudsters to transact—buying items on e-commerce shops or transferring funds to personal accounts for self-benefit, among others—without the consent of the owner.
IT is funny to hear people—usually wealthy celebrities—talk about leaving the country if this or that person is elected to office. It doesn’t matter if it is the Philippines or the US. But they never leave, and the reason is simple: money.
Money beats politics always, and these profoundly “dedicated to a cause” individuals know that their “cause” is not where their wealth comes from.
In this Breaktime Musings episode, BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Y. Arcalas chatted with Pauline Faye Tria, the owner of online pastry shop Fayebakerist, on the humble beginnings of her business and how she came to bake a cake for Vice President Leni Robredo.
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AS we enter the new decade, liberalizing the Philippine economy by removing constitutional restrictions that have been inhibiting economic growth seems to be the way to go for the House of Representatives.
This, after the lower chamber decided to continue discussions on the proposals amending the economic provisions of the 33-year-old Philippine Constitution.
I admit that I have not attended any seminars given by those teaching “financial literacy.” From the outlines there seems to be emphasis on learning about bank accounts and insurance. That is important.
Those who talk about how “God wants you to be rich” also have a place in the discussion. I suppose it may be true. Who am I to say otherwise? However, whether your financial literacy guru is “godly” or “godless,” all such wisdom begins about 3,500 years ago in the biblical book of Genesis.
In this Breaktime Musings episode, BusinessMirror talked to ECHOstore's Chit Juan and Naturland's Marco Schlüter about organic production and movement in the Philippines, including their recent partnership that seeks to advance organic products in the domestic market.
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THE always stopped and smelled the flowers she sold for more than two decades. Last year, Remedios Cruzat just stopped. And the flowers white and pink baby’s breath, red roses and blue and purple aster disappeared from sight at a street in downtown Manila.
“We had to close down our shop for six months last year starting March,” Cruzat, known by fellow vendors at the Dangwa flower market as Nanay Edios, told the BusinessMirror.
When the circus came to town, it was the midway sideshows that were most exciting. Carnival barkers would entice customers to come inside.
“Hurry, hurry, hurry! Step right up. See the greatest, the most sensational show in town. See Little Egypt do her famous dance of the Pyramids. Meet Gertler and Myrtle, the two-headed turtle!”
Maybe the most famous American sideshow was “Chang and Eng—The Siamese Twins.” The conjoined twin brothers fathered 21 children and died millionaires. Are you in “circus mode” yet?
Welcome to Breaktime Musings, a segment of the BusinessMirror BM Broader Look podcast.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on professional cycling. It is based on the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show streamed live via the BusinessMirror website and Facebook page every Monday. The show is moderated by BusinessMirror Sports Editor Jun Lomibao and by National Commissaire for Road Sunshine Joy Vallejo.
We podcast today the fifth episode of the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show, which had Jeremy Go of the Go for Gold Continental Team and Ric Rodriguez of 7 Eleven–Cliqq–air21 Road Bike Philippines Continental Team as guests.
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Start your week with Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BM Broader Look podcast that puts a spotlight on the Philippine Stock Market.
EIGHTY years ago, British journalist Sefton Delmer began helping win the war against the Germans by wielding the pen; its ink flowing with the equivalent of today’s fake news. Eight decades later, the British media and other democracies are confronting the very same monster they helped create.
But the circumstances during Delmer’s time, according to the Smithsonian Magazine article about him, were very, very different: the Internet would be born four decades later.
All the shrieking over the recent events on the New York Stock Exchange over the trading in GameStop Corp. may be the best indication of the 21st century. By that, I mean the generations that have come of age in the past 20 years or so. I am an expert. I have four sons, all Millennials or younger.
“Official” age designations are as follows: Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964, currently 57 to 75 years old. Gen X were born between 1965 and 1980 and currently from 41-56 years old. Gen Y/Millennials were born between 1981 and 1997. Gen Z were born between 1998 and 2015.
In this Breaktime Musings episode, BusinessMirror talked to Merlanie Mae Pablo of Mermaezing TV, an Overseas Filipino Worker and Gaming Video Creator that streams games such as Animal Crossings: New Horizons, Just Dance and Mobile Legends.
SOME Filipinos have been found with a blood type of “H”: Hero. Two groups of Filipinos don’t know they have it. But with hard work and a shared love for their families and the motherland, they’re able to carry the economy now clambering from a rut.
The first group wires money from over-200 countries and territories, as migrant workers, permanent residents, naturalized citizens and many more. They had been hailed “heroic” by a former Philippine president.
But the second group of heroes—agricultural workers—surprised mainstream development analysts. The agricultural sector became the Philippines’s saving grace during a pandemic.
“Short selling is a fairly simple concept. An investor borrows a stock, sells the stock, and then buys the stock back to return it to the lender. Short sellers are betting that the stock they sell will drop in price.”
Gotham. “The City that Never Sleeps.” “The Big Apple.” Two professional football and baseball teams. Landmarks known the world over. Statue of Liberty. Madison Square Garden. The Brooklyn Bridge. The New Year is not official until over a billion people watch the ball drop at Times Square. And now, home of the “squeeze of a lifetime” in the history of stock markets.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on professional cycling. It is based on the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show streamed live every Monday via the BusinessMirror website and Facebook page. The show is moderated by BusinessMirror Sports Editor Jun Lomibao and National Commissaire for Road Sunshine Joy Vallejo.
We podcast today the third episode of the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show, which had Jermyn Prado, Avegail Rombaon and Marella Salamat as guests.
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THEN the loud pop-pop-pop of a gun is heard, some people in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (Barrm) dive for their mobile phones.
Soft tick-tick-ticks form on a glowing screen. And when the typist hits send, the words reach the Critical Events Monitoring System, or CEMS, a SMS-based reporting system that captures conflict incidents and tensions in communities that may or may not lead to the eruption of violence.
Shooting incidents in BARMM stood out as the most common of reports transmitted to the CEMS as they tallied 424 cases for 2020 (or one case a day) even as figures have yet to include December.
I just had my first haircut in a year. Actually, it was my first haircut in 20 years as I stopped being “partially bald” and started having a “shaved head” in 2001.
We think of fundamental changes evolving slowly but as we look back there is a defining moment. I shaved my head in January 2001 to try it, and then shaving became a habit like a haircut.
In this Breaktime Musings episode, BusinessMirror talked to Lara Murallos, owner of BHive Coworking PH, on how her family-backed business thrived during the pandemic.
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SAY “Islamic banking” and one may conjure images that border on a banal reference to a fourth of the world’s population. This prejudice, however, is ending as local monetary authorities have been recently redoubling efforts in promoting this segment of financing in the Philippines.
That stride, however, got lost in its steady cadence as, like several sectors last year, developments in Islamic banking were derailed by government’s belated lockdown measures against the spread of the coronavirus disease of 2019. Still, optimism is, like Covid-19, infectious as many believe Islamic banking can help the banking sector reach the unbanked.
It’s the upper-class “rabble-rouser” who challenges the thought that the Philippines has reversed the Covid case uptrend by asking for statistics and is unaware of the Department of Health’s “Covid-19 Tracker.” It’s the journalists that are often being questioned about their information on social media—and sometimes in print—that is two or 10 years out of date.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on professional cycling. It is based on the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show streamed live via the BusinessMirror website and Facebook page every Monday. The show is moderated by BusinessMirror Sports Editor Jun Lomibao and National Commissaire for Road Sunshine Joy Vallejo.
We podcast today the third episode of the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show, which had Mark John Lexer Galedo and George Luis Oconer as guests.
Start your week with Business Mondays with BM, a segment of the BM Broader Look podcast that puts a spotlight on the Philippine Stock Market.
For today’s podcast, we talk to BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas who wrote the Broader Look story titled “Mechanization moves agriculture sector slow, but sure, to modern farming,” which was published on January 7, 2021.
You may have noticed that those who make a living out of predicting the future are relatively silent if not extremely cautious with what they say going into this new year.
“I can see 2021 will possibly be more difficult in terms of financial, more difficult in terms of opportunities, more difficult in terms of money.” That is as safe a forecast as you can get. This prediction for 2021 will probably be 100 percent accurate. “If there’s one thing we learned from 2020, it’s that sometimes the truly unexpected happens.”
Former International Cycling Union President Pat McQuaid talks of cycling and his years in the Philippines with the Marlboro Tour and with former Marlboro Tour organizer Gerry Aquino.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on the glorious past of professional cycling. It is based on the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show streamed live via the BusinessMirror website and Facebook page every Monday.
The show is moderated by BusinessMirror Sports Editor Jun Lomibao and National Commissaire for Road Sunshine Joy Mendoza.
For today’s podcast, we talk to BusinessMirror reporter Cai Ordinario who wrote the Broader Look story titled “‘Family, faith fortify Filipinos against pandemic, perfidy” and which was published on December 30, 2020.
For the text version online, please go to www.businessmirror.com.ph and search for Broader Look. For the print edition, please read the BusinessMirror newspaper.
Beginning on January 24, 2020 with my editorial “China’s health problem is our problem,” I wrote more than one hundred pieces on the pandemic. This involved hundreds of hours of research both health-wise and economically.
I can now say with absolute certainty and confidence that I still do not have a conclusion about what has been and is going on. If you do, then “You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!,” and much smarter.
Sa Breaktime Musings with BM podcast na ito, nakakuwentuhan ni Jasper Emmanuel Y. Arcalas si Joselito delos Reyes tungkol sa panitikan at social media sa panahon ng Covid-19. Premyadong manunulat sa sanaysay at tula si delos Reyes, at kasalukuyan siyang naninilbihang coordinator ng Creative Writing program sa University of Santo Tomas.
ON a long train ride inside a dark tunnel, it’s best to have entrepreneurs as fellow passengers: they always hope to see the light at the end.
Hope is what many implementers of social enterprises latch on as the lockdown measures against the Covid-19 pandemic have brought the economy on a downhill journey.
The economic and health crises has impinged on attempts to make development more inclusive; a slogan harped on since nations upheld the Millenium Development Goals (MDG).
IS it too much to ask that when presumably educated and intelligent people express a viewpoint, that it be validated with facts and data? Is it too much to ask that “facts and data” be analyzed in context where apples are actually compared to apples?
Southeast Asian Games gold medalists share their situation as well as hopes while two-time Marlboro Tour champion Renato Dolosa muses of days past.
We podcast today the pilot episode of the BusinessMirror Cycling talk show, which had Lea Denise Belgira, Renato Dolosa, John Derrick Farr and Jermyn Prado as guests.
The BusinessMirror Cycling talk show streamed live via the BusinessMirror website and Facebook page every Monday from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 pm. BusinessMirror Sports Editor Jun Lomibao and National Commissaire for Road Sunshine Joy Mendoza.
Lockdown measures against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has demolished the four corners of the classroom.
It wasn’t easy; and still is, as educators put efforts to rebuild those corners that are now situated in learners’ domicile.
Educators from the Department of Education (DepEd), the Commission on Higher Education (Ched), De La Salle University, Ateneo de Manila University (Admu), and STI Education Services Group Inc. (STI) have different tags for this new platform for learning. Some call it electronic learning or e-learning, distance education, alternative learning, online schooling, etc.
Let it be publicly noted that I am not a “grouchy old man.” Well, actually I am. But that does not affect my analysis and outlook for the future the way you think. It has nothing to do with the “grouchy” part and everything to do with the “old” part
In this Breaktime Musings episode, BusinessMirror talked to Gayle Hernandez-Canaria, owner of Wening's Catering and Yasui Japanese Ingredients, on how she steered her food business into a profitable online venture amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
THE past five years of the Philippine tobacco industry paint a bleak future: dwindling tobacco area and declining number of farmers.
The major culprit? Falling domestic cigarette consumption due to higher excise taxes and anti-smoking initiatives both by the government and the private sector.
Despite this, the tobacco industry, which started in the late 16th century, remains among the cornerstones of Philippine agriculture. The crop, also called gold leaf, still brings more than P3 billion worth of value to the agriculture sector annually.
You would have to be blind or willfully ignoring all that is going on to believe that everything is what it appears to be. “Mask or no mask” has been an issue for months.
As I have stated many times, I am for mask wearing as it heightens my awareness of the virus spreading. But the “science” is confusing.
In this Breaktime Musings episode, BusinessMirror talked to Jhoana Paula Tuazon, marketing and communications of Lagom Philippines, about their upcoming online drink business.
NOMADIC Bedouin tribes have flourished because of oases, where exhausted travelers take refuge.
After facing the wrath of a volcano and a deadly virus, the Filipino people could use an oasis these days, especially as cash flow is drying up. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) may have found one.
With the economic recession, monetary authorities decided to provide some relief by putting a ceiling on interest rates for credit card transactions. It is among the recent initiatives of the BSP to rejuvenate an economic desert.
You know that old joke about the light at the end of the tunnel? It is an oncoming speeding train. That train has a name: “The 2021 Express.”
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on the bike-to-work phenomenon in metropolitan Manila. We talked to Robert "Boojie" Basilio, a journalist for nearly two decades now and who has been biking to work since 2013.
THE world is your oyster; but don’t be one. For one, humans are far from being mollusks; for another, being sedentary doesn’t help, especially during lockdowns.
Being sedentary is doubly hard, and risky, for nearly four million Filipinos (3,993,300, according to the International Diabetes Foundation) with diabetes.
IT is always best to make nice-nice to an incoming US president regardless of who it is or what the new administration’s future policies might be. It is like greeting an uncle you do not know well but who just won the big lotto prize. Maybe he will include you in his will when he dies.
It always is and should be about the money.
In this Breaktime Musings episode, BusinessMirror talked to Refinitiv Philippines's Daisy Aquino on how human resources matter so a company can keep its talents.
THE sky above the labor market has been shaded a light red as pink slips fell after the government attempted to sandbag a rampaging coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic.
Latest data from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported that as of October 25, 3.73 million workers were affected as lockdown measures almost tanked the economy.
The one nation that most people around the world are most ignorant about in terms of its government and political structure is the United States. Filipinos, in general, are comfortable with the US and consider themselves to be knowledgeable about their former colonizer. Americans feel the same way about the Philippines until they start complaining that the Best Foods Mayonnaise in Cebu tastes different from that in Chicago.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on the bike-to-work phenomenon in metropolitan Manila. We talked to Robert "Boojie" Basilio, a journalist for nearly two decades now and who has been biking to work since 2013.
The Department of Energy (DOE) has repeatedly spread the gospel that full compliance with the Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EE&C) Act would result in profits, savings and sustainable economic development.
The challenge, however, is how to compel government agencies and private entities to reduce their electricity and fuel consumption.
The one nation that most people around the world are most ignorant about in terms of its government and political structure is the United States.
Filipinos, in general, are comfortable with the US and consider themselves to be knowledgeable about their former colonizer. Americans feel the same way about the Philippines until they start complaining that the Best Foods Mayonnaise in Cebu tastes different from that in Chicago.
"The period of Political Chaos began in October 2015. The period of Economic Chaos will begin in January 2020. Do not be surprised by the bizarre economic news that will soon fill the headlines.”
If you did not accept that in September last year when I wrote it, you were not prepared for 2020.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on Butchi Queen, a family-run food business that produces and sells buchi, the Filipino version of sesame seed ball.
BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas interviewed Buchi Queen’s part owner Joyce Ilas on how she helped her mom grow the business, especially during the lockdown.
According to The Independent Living Learning Centre founder Abelardo Apollo I. David Jr. the imposition of community quarantines has added to the burden in the therapy of children like Helen’s. David noted that the quarantines effectively disallowed children aged 0-years old to 20-years-old from going out.
“If before they [children with autism] are used to big spaces, now their movement is limited inside the house and they can’t even express themselves,” David said, adding this situation would sometime lead to their “meltdown.”
Considering the fact that I write four pieces published every week, I am starting to worry what might be my subject matter six months from now. I think I was able to pound out about three columns during the last “pandemic”—the first “SARS’ in 2003. As I wrote recently, Covid has been a blessing in disguise for politicians and pundits.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on Wondermeat, a new product by Guiltless Inc. that is sold by Echostore whose co-founder Chit Juan said would make one wonder because it could be a sumptuous meat-less alternative. BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas interviewed Chit Juan on Wondermeat.
ZERO is both the easiest and most difficult goal, especially in waste management; just ask Jovito L. Benosa, Zero Waste Program Officer of nonprofit EcoWaste Coalition.
Benosa’s and his coalition’s work are cut out for them with the proliferation of plastic and its use, especially after government imposed lockdown measures to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
IT is unfortunate but it is time to “go there.”
Back when I was climbing up the mountain of life rather than sliding down the other side, there were two great truths. The first was that over population was a fact and that soon nature would take its course through famines and such. The human population would be reduced to a manageable level for “Mother Gaia” to survive even if we did not.
We would like to thank you for being with the BusinessMirror BM Broader Look podcast through a podcast featuring a discussion on Animal Crossing: New Horizon from the perspective of BusinessMirror’s Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas and Dennis Estopace.
FOR some, the number 13 is a most unlucky number. But when it comes to cash transfers, it seems 13 is a winner, especially for recipients.
Thirteen years ago, then Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Felipe M. Medalla floated the idea of giving cash to both rural and urban poor to bring about pro-poor growth. Medalla urged the Arroyo administration to adopt Brazil’s Bolsa Familia program, which provides up to 95 reais (about $44 that time) a month to families who can keep their children in school and take them to clinics for health check-ups.
How important are business and consumer confidence and future expectations? Or should we be counting foot traffic at the malls? Once the government-mandated moratorium on some debt payments is lifted, will banks start lending again?
No economic crystal ball can predict what the long-term picture is going to look like. In perspective, a seven percent decline in the GDP from 2019 takes us back to about the total GDP for 2018.
A member of Escuela Taller recounts how they remained resolute in restoring the Holy Rosary Parish church in Angeles City, Pampanga, before and even during lockdown measures against the Covid-19 pandemic.
KNOWN for celebrating the longest Christmas season in the world, the Philippines will also see this year’s holiday on a short budget.
Instead of the usual fare of hamon, quezo de bola, salad, leche flan and other Christmas favorites, some Filipino families may likely swap these for roasted chicken, a simple noodle dish, rice and a no-frills dessert from more affordable ingredients.
The Covid-19 pandemic has created a wonderful opportunity for politicians and pundits. Local politicians—state and city in the US and city and barangay in the Philippines—have earned a fortune, power, and fame. Pundits have had something to write about.
The key to the deal, though, is that the pandemic has changed the world at least in the foreseeable future.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on young entrepreneur Miya Onquit, co-owner of Leaky Cauldron, an online food business that sells chicken wings, chicharong bulaklak and baked sushi, among others.
AT the same time a small store’s window is flung open in Muntinlupa, a woman crosses a narrow overpass in the eastern part of the metropolis; a bicycle in tow.
It’s another day of trudging on against the unknown but with a simple plan: both for Loida, the sari-sari store owner, and Elsa, the 30-year-old woman with the bicycle, it’s simply to earn something to get them through tomorrow.
The fortyish Loida de la Cruz (not her real name) said earning something is better than shutting down the store entirely and surrendering whatever hope there is amid the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown.
When you are a child you may often be asked, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I always had problems with even faking it like “I want to be a doctor.” I suppose that is the reason I have worked a “real” job—where they expect you to come on time and not leave early—only about three years of my adult life.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on young entrepreneur JC Merez, co-owner of Tagay Cocktails, an online business selling cocktail mixes. JC works for a 5-star hotel but quarantine measures prompted her to build the business that plays on the Tagalog word for a shot among drinking buddies.
SOME bankers would consider adjustments to the phaseout of Libor less a labor of love, as the end of the 34-year-old financial tool brings additional tasks the sector must undertake.
“The most important number in finance will disappear in 2021,” lawyer Russell Stanley Geronimo wrote in an opinion piece for the BusinessMirror. (See, “Is the Philippines ready for the 2021 Libor phaseout?” August 17, 2020)
“The London Interbank Offer Rate (Libor), which is an interbank interest rate at which banks on the London money market are willing to lend to one another, will soon be phased out.”
By 2022, the banking industry will be introduced to a new benchmark for borrowing costs.
The projection models on the course of the Covid-19 pandemic have been about as inaccurate as those used for global warming and “famine-from-overpopulation.” But that is the problem with trying to draw conclusions when there are too many variables and oftentimes agenda-driven data interpretation.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on young entrepreneur Jhoana Paula Tuazon and ‘Lil Chef Bakery, an online food business she started with her sister Portia.
‘Lil Chef Bakery, which sells palm-sized cookies and Basque-burnt cheesecakes, is homage to Portia who has been baking since grade school. She was dubbed ‘Lil Chef’ by their parents and, hence, they called their online business so.
BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas interviewed Paula on how she and her sister began ‘Lil Chef Bakery.
MOTHER Nature—if President Trump’s “kung-fu” virus allegation is disbelieved—could be a bitch, sometimes.
She made that point in 2020.
The year had a lot of “should haves” and “could haves,” according to Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua.
While it is an inaccurate translation from the original Latin, we use the term “quid pro quo” in English to describe “I give, so that you may give” or “You do this and I will do that.”
But in a nation, we actually expect the government or state to “give” first and there is not necessarily anything wrong with that.
Today’s podcast puts a spotlight on young entrepreneur Elisse Perez and her online food business Baon PH, which provides affordable packed meals, or baon, with a choice of weekly or daily subscription.
BusinessMirror reporter Jasper Emmanuel Arcalas interviewed Elisse on how she helped her mother bring online a catering business that had schools and offices as clientele before lockdowns were imposed.
“Wednesdays with John Mangun” is a podcast to be anchored by John Mangun, a columnist for the BusinessMirror and behind the website Mangun-on-Markets.com. Every Wednesday, Mangun reads one of the many pieces he wrote for his column “Outside the Box,” which is published every Tuesday and Thursday in the BusinessMirror.
For this episode, Mr. Mangun discusses the performance of the Philippine economy, measured according to gross domestic product or GDP, during the administration of President Benigno Aquino and President Rodrigo Duterte.
Market Mondays is the BusinessMirror podcast on the Philippine stock market based on the stock market outlook story written by VG Cabuag and which comes out in the Companies section of the BusinessMirror every Monday.
BusinessMirror Publisher T. Anthony Cabangon and Editor in Chief Lourdes M. Fernandez share their views on the business newspaper's journey into podcasting in this introductory episode of the BM Broader Look Podcast.